, 1887-09-01


ing for work.
General Master Workman Powder
iy has made public q letter denying
that he Is IN any way connected with
the American party.
Poverty" says Father McGlynn.
is disease" 1t can he cured bv
scratching the surface OF the earth il
the neighborhood with hoe
Buffalo Bil. : going to take his
Wild West show to Rome and play il
IN the old Colosseum. where Spartacus
usad to claw the brains out Of inferior
gladiators.
A Sioux City, Iowa, personal item
reads as follows: "Rev. W Carter
has discontinued his series of tenn
peraHee meetings in this city. His
remains will be shipped east tomor-
p0W."
The other day man was arrested
IN Chicago for reading bible i'll the
street. While the officer was making
the arrest two aldermen started for
Canada and a man from Des Moines
Was ssndbagged in AZ alley.
IF. Alta: We advise the Texas
DemocTats to think twice before they
read Prohibidonists out of the party.
Numerous as Democrats are in that
State there may not be enough for
two Democratic parties Go slow and
drive in the middle of the road
The great anti-poverty society.
organized by Henry George and DR.
AcGlyn, has been in operation four
teen weeks. 1t has collected S5O67. 40
and spent $4974. 5O-net balance for
the members to draw on increase
OF emergency, S9290.
The oleOmargarine receipts are now
averaging $500 per day at the Chicago
revenue Office, though this is the dull
season. This indicates the manu-
facture there to be 45,C00 pounds per
day. The oleomargarine industry is
rapidly centralizinS into a few big
houses.
The Albany (N. " Times,a staunch
democratic newspaper, thinks that
the result in Kentucky was due to
an objectionable elevation of the
COnfederacy" II that has caused
the gale in Kentucky, look out for a
oyolene IN Ohio and other northern
statss IN November
Jay Gould has closed contract
with responsible parties to build the
Mexican National railway rom S:l-
tillo, Mexico, to San Luis Potosl. a
distance of $50 miles. within twelve
months from date The opening OF
this road will furnish a new route
from Texas to the city of Mexico.
HPeter Kirke has bonded several
Iron claims in the Clealum district
for ninety days in sums ranging from
S1,5O0 to $l0,o00, for the purpose of
testing the iron ore and the coke
making quality of the coal in that
nsighborhood. He considers the
prospects IN that locality favorable,
St. John says that next year the
Prohibition vote will be a million.
Henry George says the Labor vote
will be million. The American par
" says it will have a million votes.
II few more parties put on these
million airs we wish to know where
the Democratic and Republican vote
IL coming from.
Gen. James Longstreet lives in a
quiet farm house on the summit of a
mountain ridge in North Georgia.
A friend who has Just been paying
him visit says that his hair is silver,
bis Vhiskers are snow, his giant
tigura somewhat bent, but his eagle
eyes still fash with the old time fire,
and years have only deepened the
strong lines in his face.
Walla Walla Union: Work in the
penitentiary brick yard is progress
ing fayorably, One gang of workmen
are already educated so that they are
turning out from 1000 to 1900 brick
day. which will compare favorably
with any brick in use here. Another
gang Of brickmakers are being taught
and will soo2 have arrived at sutfi-
aisnt proficiency to do the work
The fisheries department at Otta-
va have received information of the
ssizurs of more Canada sealing ves-
sells in the No th Pacific ocean by
United States cruisers 1t is learned
chat the commanders of the United
states cruisers that are in the Alas
kan service have been ordered to
seize all sealing vessels found in
Behring's sea, unless they are the
property of the Alaska Fur company.
During the year ended March 81,
1887, various Grand Army depart
nsnts OF the country expended 1858,
goo IN relieving distress among 26,6OG
sx-aoldlers and their dependents.
besides as much moro not reported tC
national headquarters, but distributed
Informally. The Massachusetts de,
department expended the most OF any
department-S51,0 ,0ll-with NewYorl
nsxt-$4S, $50.
Mayor O'Brien of Boston defend,
his presence at arecent entertainment
given st the. Boston theater ia hopol
81 John L. Sullivan. He SAYS thai
he eonsiIured it his duty to see thai
the city ordinances were not iufIin9el
apon. And then. again, he claim.
that performance officially sane
toned hy the board If aldermen j.
sEs Whin!. can ha properly attended
~ tao mot select ci;sz. of Boz !,
"a eisl.'yr : =. ,,,,ii,a AJAX Ir.e,
70 leave sris' tLs- Fo;ils Eor Ja,.i..! !
sOms place, ca 'Le American plan
ths other Gay. but il : not bcl:.-rc,
that tha cIstom-v;li beraIn plEul -.
ihs goveTnriepf wEi iei ~ ho c;ss!l-
Ter III : cell tp sIurst, L. death ait
chopped the heads off al lis r..n1i.y
And next iall they az gcih. to dc.
saPitste everybody in the eIupil,
Bearing his name.
1t is r',tsorJed that Ciova!aud has ii,
last decided 10 make Ii western trim
He Hay do Il. bnf wa rathrr ex,,ec,
that when he gets to Butia'u. New
Tsrk, apa,, looks k,ff. across tila wild
and bowling wilderness filled With
terocious beasts and lurking savayes.
tAat liss aSest of there, his courage
viii fail him aga.n and toai go 10
farther. A man wio ventures i.io.,
tkan mI.e co so wes, OF Buff. q Ji, ;
ss at his own peril anyToW